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Heritage is making here. can republicans make arguments against racism in republican contexts? >> i dont think they can. i mean, a few talk a good game, but presupposes that there is a republican establishment that somehow is going to be that policing mechanism, that they are going to be people that stand up, but they are really afraid of the base, and i think right now were seeing chaos really within the republican party, different groups and heritage is just one of them, vying for power and ev...

>> i dont think they can. i mean, a few talk a good game, but presupposes that there is a republican establishment that somehow is going to be that policing mechanism, that they are going to be people that stand up, but they are really afraid of the base, and i think right now were seeing chaos really within the republican party, different groups and heritage is just one of them, vying for power and everyone is sort of standing off of everyone else and the center doesnt hold. theres no governing...

Heritage is making here. can republicans make arguments against racism in republican contexts? >> i dont think they can. i mean, a few talk a good game, but presupposes that there is a republican establishment that somehow is going to be that policing mechanism, that they are going to be people that stand up, but they are really afraid of the base, and i think right now were seeing chaos really within the republican party, different groups and heritage is just one of them, vying for power and ev...

The republican brain to better understand what the heck is going on in there. our initial findings show that tax it cuts for the rich make up a huge percentage of the gop mind. in fact, its just about 47%. the anti-obama cortex is a key part of the republican brain. those neurons light up whenever the president talks about anything. its amazing. weve all saw identified two stimulus lows in the gop brain. one side opposes it while the other side takes credit for it back in their home districts. b...

Repairman. it has less to do with age-related cognitive decline and more with how our emotional perception of things change as we get older. its an area called the insular cortex that has to do with the emotional reaction of disgust. they took two groups of people. and they showed them pictures of people who looked untrustworthy. here is what happened when they put those people into an mri machine. the younger people, their brains that measures disgust lit up like a stop sign. the older people t...

Researchers say this occurs and it is deep in the brain in the corecortex. researchers divided people in two groups, one average age 23 and one average age 68 and showed pictures of those who looked untrustworthy and put them in a mri brain. the areas of the cortex lit up like a warning signal when they were shown pictures of who looked untrustworthy and the older brain, nothing happened. it did not register. the lead reseracher says people as they able lose that "gut" feeling that something is ...

Ultra real world. >> evan alexander nervous a coma for a full week after he contracted a rare bacterial infection. his entire cortex was completely dead. his doctors talked about taking him off life support, and evan woke up. he believes he returned from another consciousness than he dreamed existed. he said it was heaven, but this time its different. evan is actually dr. evan alexander, a harvard-trained brain surgeon. his scientific explanation is that he was actually in heaven up. dr. alexand...

Someone but if you dont have brakes how do you stop the car? jamie: can it be stopped? dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor of fox news health.com, a member of our fox news medical a team. >> good to see you,. jamie: doctor manny, what about addiction, did she point out anything we didnt already know. >> she is the director of the national institute of drug abuse. one of the greatest scientists in the world doing research many, many years on drug addiction. i think she is onto something bec...

Balance of the sort of existed world. >> were the only species that has a nervous system that can make us self-aware. and that gives us the unique advantage. who am i? what do i want? whats my purpose? whats my contribution? what do i -- how do i want to make a difference? how do i express myself? that actually causes physical changes in your preference cortex. biological organisms are fine tuned. its not like you visualize our make hard intentions, you reflect. the ability to reflect is a very ...

Instance for planning what you want to do or for understanding where your body is in space. something like that. so that to give you an idea, somebody, for instance, may have some weakness on the right and they want to drink a cup of tea and theyre sitting there looking at that cup of tea, and theyre thinking how the heck am i going to get that tea into my mouth. the simpling at of picking it up and going like that. you need this primeau tore cortex to do. and so these are some of the possible k...